Temecula man guilty of rape; lured woman with Tupperware catolog
Rafael Solorio of Temecula faces 180 years to life in prison after being convicted.
A 27-year-old man who lured a woman to his Temecula apartment with a request for Tupperware catalogs was found guilty today of raping her at knifepoint.
Rafael Solorio faces a maximum180 years to life in prison when he is sentenced March 19.
The jury took less than a day to convict Solorio of two counts of rape; one count of forced sexual penetration with a foreign object and three counts of forced oral copulation.
The jury also found sentence-enhancing knife and serious felony allegations to be true, and Solorio admitted a prior strike — a 2004 attempted robbery conviction.
Solorio lured the Tupperware sales representative to his residence in the 40000 block of Moraga Road on June 5, 2008, under the pretense that his wife — who also sold Tupperware — was in need of some catalogs, according to testimony by the victim and sheriff’s Detective Phillip Rice.
When she arrived, the defendant tricked her into coming inside, then assaulted her at knifepoint.
The attack occurred over a period of two hours — from 11 a.m. to about 1 p.m. — before the woman told the defendant he needed to “either kill me or let me go,” according to Deputy District Attorney Jess Walsh.
At one point, she threw up and had to go to the bathroom, where the defendant assaulted her again, according to the prosecutor. She was eventually allowed to take a shower and leave.
The defense did not put on a case.
Tags: Deputy District Attorney Jess Walsh, Rafael Solorio, sheriff's Detective Phillip Rice, SWRNN, Temecula, Tupperware
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